{"id":51,"date":"2015-07-14T20:42:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T20:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/?p=51"},"modified":"2025-05-30T20:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:31:54","slug":"case6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/case6\/","title":{"rendered":"Case 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav style=\"font-size:1.1em;font-style:normal;font-weight:600;\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color is-responsive has-text-decoration-underline wp-block-navigation is-layout-flex wp-container-core-navigation-is-layout-999a5efb wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Menu\" \n\t\t data-wp-interactive=\"core\/navigation\" data-wp-context='{\"overlayOpenedBy\":{\"click\":false,\"hover\":false,\"focus\":false},\"type\":\"overlay\",\"roleAttribute\":\"\",\"ariaLabel\":\"Menu\"}'><button aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Open menu\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-open\" 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aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Case 6<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/1_bdr424610_11md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/1_bdr424610_11md.jpg\" alt=\"A drawing of a houseon a letter\" class=\"wp-image-167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/1_bdr424610_11md.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/1_bdr424610_11md-300x225.jpg 300w, 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src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424869_09md.jpg\" alt=\"A letter with multiple drawings\" class=\"wp-image-169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424869_09md.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424869_09md-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424869_09md-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424869_09md-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424869_09md-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_Bloch19350731Lovecraft003-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_Bloch19350731Lovecraft003-1.jpg\" alt=\"A letter with drawing\" class=\"wp-image-170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_Bloch19350731Lovecraft003-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_Bloch19350731Lovecraft003-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_Bloch19350731Lovecraft003-1-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_Bloch19350731Lovecraft003-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_Bloch19350731Lovecraft003-1-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #9a3641\">\u2026 the bus swung in, and a tall, stooped figure, with grey-brown hair and a protruding jaw<br>\nemerged gauntly and hailed me. * <\/span><\/em><br>\nRobert H. Barlow, \u201cThe wind that is in the grass : a memoir of H. P. Lovecraft in Florida,\u201d 1944<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida was one of Lovecraft\u2019s favorite places. The items in this case are a diverse selection of artifacts and manuscripts representing two of the three trips he took to the subtropical state during his lifetime. During the summers of 1934 and 1935, Lovecraft headed south from Providence for an extended stay with his young correspondent and fellow weird fiction enthusiast Robert Hayward Barlow at his family\u2019s rural home in DeLand, Florida. The climate suited his constitution and alleviated ailments that may have been signs of his imminent cancer diagnosis. In a letter that he wrote to Robert Bloch after his arrival to DeLand in June 1935, Lovecraft asserts, \u201cI began to feel a certain strength + comfort the moment I struck the hot Carolina lowlands\u2014 + by the time I reached Charleston I was feeling really well for the first time in 1935.\u201d  The materials included describe Lovecraft\u2019s vacation and his perceptions of the history, landscape, and environment he encountered. Days in DeLand were filled with discussions of fiction, searches through \u201cThe Vaults of Yoh-Vombis\u201d\u2014the collection of weird books and magazines that Barlow kept in his bedroom closet, adventures in nature, and printing and book-making endeavors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the last decade of his life, Lovecraft traveled frequently to cities along the East Coast.  He documented his excursions through his letters and prolific postcards, often detailing his impressions of a place\u2019s historical authenticity and noting sites or environmental features that inspired him. Lovecraft used identifiable settings from both his hometown and travel destinations in much of his fiction and travelogues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #9a3641\">the bus swung in, and a tall, stooped figure with grey-brown hair and a protruding jaw emerged gauntly and hailed me<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Case Contents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (Providence, Rhode Island 1890-1937 Providence, Rhode Island)<br><br><em>Letter to Duane W. Rimel<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MS.Lovecraft<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First page of an eight-page letter written from DeLand, Florida. Barlow drawing for \u201cThe Tree on the Hill\u201d and Lovecraft drawing of Barlow residence in DeLand, Florida, inserted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>R. H. (Robert Hayward) Barlow (Leavenworth, Kansas 1918-1951 Mexico City, Mexico)<br><br>Untitled<\/strong><br><br>1934 May 3<br><br>Oil on canvas board<br><br>John Hay Library. Star Collection. <a href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b5191939~S7\" target=\"_blank\">RARE 3-S PS3523.O82 Z98 L7<\/a><br><br><span style=\"color: #6e6e6e\">Inscribed on reverse side: &#8220;May 3, 1934 For HPL in appreciation of appreciation R H Barlow&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (Providence, Rhode Island 1890-1937 Providence, Rhode Island)<br><br><em>Letter to Duane W. Rimel<\/em><\/strong><br><br>1935 June 30<br><br>Autograph letter signed (eight pages on four sheets), decorated envelope<br><br>John Hay Library. Howard P. Lovecraft Collection, 1894-1971. <a href=\"http:\/\/riamco.org\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-mslovecraft&amp;view=title\" target=\"_blank\">MS.Lovecraft<\/a><br><br><span style=\"color: #6e6e6e\">First page of an eight-page letter written from DeLand, Florida. Pressed insect included, identified by Lovecraft on reverse side, \u201cmosquito from DeLand, Fla.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (Providence, Rhode Island 1890-1937 Providence, Rhode Island)<br><br><em>Letter to Robert Bloch<\/em><\/strong><br><br>1935 June<br><br>Autograph letter signed (two pages on one sheet)<br><br>John Hay Library. Howard P. Lovecraft Collection, 1894-1971. <a href=\"http:\/\/riamco.org\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-mslovecraft&amp;view=title\" target=\"_blank\">MS.Lovecraft<\/a><br><br><span style=\"color: #6e6e6e\">First page of a two-page letter written from DeLand, Florida. Printed illustration identified by Lovecraft as the \u201clinoleum block work of Ar-Ech-Bei\u2019s [R. H. Barlow]. The large monster of the letterhead is our old friend Cthulhu in one of his less usual + more active poses.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Robert Bloch (Chicago, Illinois 1917-1994 Los Angeles, California)<br><br><em>Letter to H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft<\/em><\/strong><br><br>1935 July 31<br><br>Autograph letter signed (two pages on one sheet), decorated envelope<br><br>John Hay Library. Howard P. 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